preaches sermons, his approach to the Bible is governed by literary intuitions. Packer’s literary inclination is seen first in the parts of the Bible to which Packer gravitates for his sermons. Most seminary-trained preachers seize upon the most heavily conceptual and theological parts of the Bible and are, in fact, content to preach almost solely from the Epistles. Packer gravitates to the narrative parts of the Bible. Within that parameter, he feels most natural in preaching about the characters